Bush's Ponzi Scheme

GREAT read ... take the time to read. Here is a clip ...

THREE days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with the revelation of another $50 billion rip-off. This time the vanished loot belonged to American taxpayers. That was our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction — a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad.

The link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11rich.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Frank Rich....

Hey Bman, the election is over, your guy won. I would hope you would indulge us with more promises from BHO, then continue to run off with the Bush bashing. I think we get your (the left's) point.

I think the main point of the article can be summed up in this paragraph...

What’s most remarkable about the Times article, however, is how little stir it caused. When, in 1971, The Times got its hands on the Pentagon Papers, the internal federal history of the Vietnam disaster, the revelations caused a national uproar. But after eight years of battering by Bush, the nation has been rendered half-catatonic. The Iraq Pentagon Papers sank with barely a trace.

Doesn't sound like Bush bashing as much as it sounds like the Iraq war reconstruction effort was/is about as legitimate as Madoff's ponzi scheme.

LTRT wrote:Frank Rich....

Hey Bman, the election is over, your guy won. I would hope you would indulge us with more promises from BHO, then continue to run off with the Bush bashing. I think we get your (the left's) point.

What that my point is that Bush/Cheney are big fat liars who mislead the country and put us on a path of ultimate destruction?

So you don't like Frank Rich but we know who and what you read ...

Good article... I was pleased to hear the Obama quote....

... The president-elect himself struck this note last spring. “If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” Barack Obama said. “I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”

pez wrote:Good article... I was pleased to hear the Obama quote....

... The president-elect himself struck this note last spring. “If crimes have been committed, they should be investigated,” Barack Obama said. “I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”

I think he stole that from "The American President" where Michael Douglas makes his big speech at the end of the movie saying something like "America has serious problems, and they need addressed by serious people.... My name is (can't remember his character's name) and I AM the President of the United States." (Thunderous applause!)

Regardless, I like the quote and I like that type of attitude.

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Regardless, I like the quote and I like that type of attitude.

Ahh yesss.... the Kool-Aid is working.

meta4 wrote:

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Regardless, I like the quote and I like that type of attitude.

Ahh yesss.... the Kool-Aid is working.

i posted a link to the circulating draft of this same report in recent weeks..when someone here was gonna tell their soldier friend who is over fighting patriotically for our freedom how i the commie un-american liar call our soldiers rapists and killers (and proved there is a good percent that admit it).

comments were made about the great rebuilding that had and is still going on and someone posted some wanna-be iffy link. i posted info on the draft for this report. there was alot of press about this stuff a couple years ago..but it apparently got ignored during the heat of the primaries and election. i am glad it is brought up again. just because there is a new president coming in doesnt mean we should sweep under the rug all the horror and illegalities generated by bush/cheney team. they need to be held accountable for many things.

i particularly recall my link referenced
"Back in 2003, Powell said, the Defense Department just “kept inventing numbers of Iraqi security forces — the number would jump 20,000 a week! ‘We now have 80,000, we now have 100,000, we now have 120,000.’ ” Those of us who questioned these astonishing numbers were dismissed as fools"